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Opinion: A Criminal Oversight in College Background Checks

By Mark GrabowskiJul 13th 2010 – 6:15AM
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(July 13) -- Posting a scandalous photo on Facebook could get you rejected from the college of your choice. But there's a good chance a rape conviction won't. Only 4 percent of colleges conduct criminal background checks on students, and 36 percent of schools don't even require self-disclosure of crimes, according to a...

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Google adds feature to help China searchers

Jun 01st 2012 - 03:18AM

BEIJING -Google has fired a new salvo in a censorship battle with Beijing by adding a feature that suggests alternatives for search terms that might result in blocked results.

ENGADGET

Google image search results crammed into picture dictionary

Jun 01st 2012 - 12:59AM

Though not quite a replacement for Mountain View's ill-fated dictionary , this 1,240 page tome contains the first Google image search result for each word in a run-of-the-mill dictionary.

ENGADGET MOBILE

Samsung posts Galaxy S III source code, modders start their engines

May 31st 2012 - 07:40PM

That was fast: just a few days after the Galaxy S III reached buyers' eager hands , Samsung has posted the phone's source code.

ENGADGET

Samsung posts Galaxy S III source code, modders start their engines

May 31st 2012 - 07:35PM

That was fast: just a few days after the Galaxy S III reached buyers' eager hands , Samsung has posted the phone's source code.

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Oracle Gets Another Setback In Google Dispute

May 31st 2012 - 07:06PM

Oracle Corp. received another setback Thursday as a federal judge in San Francisco undermined a central part of the company's multimillion dollar case against Google Inc. over its Android software for mobile devices.

SearchEngines News From the Web

  • 06/01/12 Google challenges China censorship with new search tool Source: FOX News Google has begun notifying Chinese users when they are using search terms that can trigger China's Internet blocks, in its boldest challenge in two years to Beijing's efforts to restrict online content.
  • 06/01/12 Research in Motion, Struggling, Ponders a Dim Future Source: Vermont Business Magazine After rejecting the idea of a sale for months, Research in Motion acknowledged on Tuesday that it was considering "strategic business model alternatives" - or in banker's speak, RIM , which makes the BlackBerry , said it was pondering a potential deal for all or parts of the company.
  • 06/01/12 Bitauto Extends Co-operative Agreement with Baidu Source: PR Newswire BEIJING , June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Bitauto Holdings Limited ("Bitauto" or the "Company") (NYSE: BITA), a leading provider of Internet content and marketing services for China 's fast-growing automotive industry, today announced that it has renewed its agreement with Baidu, Inc. ("Baidu"), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, to be the exclusive supplier of auto-related content for Aladdin, Baidu's open data platform, for another 12 months, until May 31, 2013 .
  • 06/01/12 Google to make product search a paid service in US Source: Business Standard Google's free 'product search' would soon be a paid service in the US under which merchants and retailers will have to pay for listings of products.
  • 06/01/12 DT Debates: Is the movement to personalize the Web... Source: Design Technica Does it add to the experience or narrow our options?

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